Quotes about wind
wind pilots calm
The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds. Plutarch
wind sea oil
Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor cause any waves?
wind fields firsts
The first thing you do when you get out to center field is put up your finger and check the wind chill factor. Mickey Rivers
wind together rope
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Take the cable thread by thread, take separately all the little determining motives, you break them one after another, and you say: that is all! Wind them and twist them together, they become an enormity. Victor Hugo
wind fire broken
A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?
wind giving tides
Give wind and tide a chance to change. Richard E. Byrd
wind storm ships
You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds. Thomas More
wind sea water
A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest. Thomas Browne
wind-turbines landscape intrusion
Onshore wind turbines are visually a very considerable intrusion on any landscape. Tim Yeo
wind long ashes
The oak roars when a high wind wrestles with it; the beech shrieks; the elm sends forth a long, deep groan; the ash pours out moans of thrilling anguish. Thomas Starr King
wind people bars
People go to casinos for the same reason they go on blind dates - hoping to hit the jackpot. But mostly, you just wind up broke or alone in a bar. Sarah Jessica Parker
wind soul atheism
As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls. Robert Plant
wind lips winds-of-change
My lips are chapped from the winds of change. Sarah Vowell
wind roots zion
Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast. Samuel Rutherford
wind heaven soul
The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul.
wind storm violence
He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel. Samuel Johnson
wind faces sun
Labor's face is wrinkled with the wind, and swarthy with the sun.
wind owing dollars
“If I had been on 'Bowling for Dollars,' I'd wind up owing them money.” Ricki Lake
wind gossip want
If you want to know how far gossip travels, do this - take a feather pillow up on a roof, slice it open, and let the feathers fly away on the wind. Then go and find every single feather and re-stuff the pillow. Rebecca Pidgeon
wind play ideas
People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are. On a certain level, everyone throws ideas into the hopper. It's not like the actors are wind-up dolls that you push out onto the floor, play with, then put back in the box. You get people around you who you trust; the writer, the producer, the director and all the actors all contribute. Richard Gere
wind ideas fragility
A good idea is like a lighted match, easily blown out by the cold winds of rigid management. Richard Kinder
wind clouds heaven
O that our souls could scale a height like this, A mighty mountain swept o'er by the bleak Keen winds of heaven; and, standing on that peak Above the blinding clouds of prejudice, Would we could see all truly as it is; The calm eternal truth would keep us meek. Robinson Jeffers
wind office magic
Too many of us seem far too fond of narratives of our powerlessness, maybe because powerlessness lets us off the hook... But we don't need everyone on board; we don't need one magic person in office; we need ourselves. To act. It's the wind, not the weathervanes. Rebecca Solnit
wind sea joy
There's a cool web of language winds us in, Retreat from too much joy or too much fear: We grow sea-green at last and coldly die In brininess and volubility. Robert Graves
wind dragons wheel-of-time
Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time. Robert Jordan
wind storm sound
We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder.
wind age envious
At my age I'm envious of a stiff wind. Rodney Dangerfield
wind
The wind is old, but it keeps blowing. Roberto Duran
wind swans soul
The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks And far beyond the discords of the wind. Wallace Stevens
wind illusion irrational
The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her.
wind land sky
It is well to be informed about the winds, About the variations in the sky, The native traits and habits of the place, What each locale permits, and what denies. Virgil
wind-farms law example
I will do anything that is basically covered by the law to reduce Berkshire's tax rate. For example, on wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That's the only reason to build them. They don't make sense without the tax credit. Warren Buffett
wind happy-love mountain
I cry, Love! Love! Love! happy happy Love! free as the mountain wind! William Blake